Women's basketball interview vs. Iowa

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02/26/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green salutes Maddie Simon, who was recognized on senior night. Ronnie also talked about Nebraska students' success in earning Fulbright awards, and the university ranking among the best in the U.S. in guiding students toward Fulbright Awards. He also spoke about Nebraska being selected to host Mandela Scholars again this summer.

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[00:00:01.910]Greg Sharpe back at our Husker Sports Network studios.
[00:00:03.701]Delighted to be joined here tonight here at halftime
[00:00:05.990]by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green.
[00:00:08.910]Final home game for the women,
[00:00:10.280]final night for some seniors.
[00:00:11.592]One of them we hope
[00:00:12.520]to get back next year in Kristian Hudson.
[00:00:14.060]But Maddie Simon, from right here in Lincoln,
[00:00:15.451]her senior night.
[00:00:16.472]It always really kind of a special moment
[00:00:20.402]to both thank, and salute,
[00:00:22.980]and wish best wishes for the future,
[00:00:26.610]and students who have competed here at Nebraska
[00:00:29.210]across all of our sports.
[00:00:30.380]And, tonight's a special night for that for Maddie,
[00:00:32.403]as you mentioned from Lincoln Pius X here in Lincoln,
[00:00:37.500]and has a great career here at Nebraska.
[00:00:39.580]And certainly wish her the best
[00:00:40.990]as she goes into this next phase of her life
[00:00:43.213]equipped with a Husker degree.
[00:00:44.890]Very good for her.
[00:00:46.290]Well, recently you got some exciting news
[00:00:48.210]about some Nebraska students
[00:00:49.530]that are earning national fellowships at a rate
[00:00:52.510]that compares with some pretty hefty folks
[00:00:55.070]in higher education.
[00:00:56.330]Yeah it's, Greg we're really proud of our
[00:00:58.683]international engagement of both
[00:01:00.970]our students out into the world,
[00:01:02.680]as well as students coming to us here
[00:01:04.664]and participating with us
[00:01:06.330]at the University of Nebraska.
[00:01:07.730]And, one of the areas we've had
[00:01:09.310]a huge amount of success in over the years
[00:01:11.344]is the Fulbright program through the US State Department.
[00:01:14.940]It's the US government's
[00:01:16.160]flagship international educational exchange program,
[00:01:19.480]where American students go around the world.
[00:01:22.300]Often teaching English,
[00:01:23.752]often working in countries around the world
[00:01:27.003]in English education.
[00:01:29.090]And we've been amongst the top producers
[00:01:30.693]of Fulbright scholar students
[00:01:32.811]going around the world for sometime.
[00:01:35.190]But, we've just found out here in the last few weeks
[00:01:37.881]that we're in the 2018-19 US top producing list
[00:01:43.650]of institutions nationally
[00:01:45.930]in the number of these awards
[00:01:47.540]that our students have won.
[00:01:49.712]We're on that list in 2012 and '13,
[00:01:53.170]so it's nice to be back on it again here in 2018.
[00:01:56.610]It puts us in some pretty high company.
[00:01:58.613]We had, in that year, 44 students who applied
[00:02:02.693]for Fulbright opportunities around the world.
[00:02:05.870]We had 14 who were awarded,
[00:02:07.950]one of the highest kind of,
[00:02:08.904]yield rates if you want to think about, success rates
[00:02:12.093]in those applicants of any institution in the country.
[00:02:16.010]For example, Yale.
[00:02:17.560]You know, we think of the Ivy League,
[00:02:19.230]and the Ivy League so to speak, right?
[00:02:22.640]And Yale had the same number of awards,
[00:02:25.670]but they had 68 people apply
[00:02:27.373]for those positions around the world.
[00:02:30.590]So, we're very pleased about that.
[00:02:32.230]Puts us in the league with Yale, and Harvard,
[00:02:34.340]and Columbia in the Ivy League, Stanford,
[00:02:36.613]University of Chicago, Cal-Berkeley.
[00:02:40.070]Institutions that often get mentioned
[00:02:42.130]as amongst the most elite in the world.
[00:02:46.460]And, I kind of want to do just a shout-out here.
[00:02:49.360]One of the people that makes this happen is Laura Dama,
[00:02:52.383]who is an advisor in the Honors Program.
[00:02:55.770]She has worked for a number of years
[00:02:58.424]in the Honors Program in working with
[00:03:00.853]Fulbright scholarship applications.
[00:03:03.143]And, she has a lot of input into this success,
[00:03:06.430]and just want to call her out for that excellence
[00:03:08.663]in working with our talented students
[00:03:11.160]who will go all over the world,
[00:03:12.610]and have impact through these Fulbright scholarships.
[00:03:15.830]Thank her for all that great work,
[00:03:17.130]and congratulations to all the honorees,
[00:03:18.880]and even the ones who applied.
[00:03:19.940]That's amazing.
[00:03:21.140]Not only is Nebraska, are the students taken
[00:03:22.991]opportunities to engage with the world.
[00:03:25.370]The university brings in scholars
[00:03:26.890]from around the world to engage with the students.
[00:03:29.222]What's the latest news in global engagement
[00:03:31.890]here on campus?
[00:03:32.960]Well, I mentioned earlier you know,
[00:03:34.700]that we send students out and we bring students here.
[00:03:36.953]And, a program that we've had now
[00:03:38.970]for last several years that we've been selected for
[00:03:42.133]is the Mandela Washington Fellowship program
[00:03:45.653]for young African leaders,
[00:03:47.790]from particularly the southern part of Africa.
[00:03:51.310]It's also a part of the US Department of State,
[00:03:53.821]its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
[00:03:58.470]It's a program where 25 emerging leaders
[00:04:02.540]who are highly selected from these countries
[00:04:04.860]across Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
[00:04:07.320]if you want to think of it that way,
[00:04:09.130]come for a six week academic
[00:04:11.130]and civic engagement course at the university.
[00:04:14.063]I remember this really well,
[00:04:15.922]because one of our daughters was actually an advisor
[00:04:19.023]for the first group of these students
[00:04:20.970]who came here several years ago from Africa.
[00:04:23.530]And, remember how bright, and engaging, and amazing
[00:04:26.730]these students really are.
[00:04:28.941]We're one of 27 institutions
[00:04:30.663]that are selected to serve as institute partners
[00:04:33.450]through this program.
[00:04:34.594]And again, in a shout-out to our people,
[00:04:37.893]Maegan Stevens-Liska,
[00:04:40.480]who is our Director of the Office of Global Strategies
[00:04:43.180]in our international programs.
[00:04:44.640]And Linda Major,
[00:04:45.670]Director for the Center of Civic Engagement
[00:04:47.512]in our student affairs group,
[00:04:49.920]are the leaders in this program
[00:04:51.362]who have brought this here,
[00:04:52.669]and continue to lead it
[00:04:53.871]for these dynamic, young leaders from across Africa.
[00:04:58.781]So very, very pleased about that.
[00:05:00.180]Pleased about the opportunity to be selected again
[00:05:02.540]for this program this year,
[00:05:04.290]and looking forward to this next cohort
[00:05:06.050]of Mandela Fellows on our campus.
[00:05:07.541]Fantastic.
[00:05:08.374]Well, thank you so much for updating us on that.
[00:05:09.930]Always great to see you.
[00:05:10.763]Enjoy the rest of the game.
[00:05:11.910]It's great to be here, and go Big Red.
[00:05:13.701]Ronnie Green with us here at halftime.
[00:05:15.530]We've got more halftime coming up next.

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